Building crowdsourced photographic collections with lentil and Instagram
Jason Casden
Access Conference 2013 24 September 2013
James B. Hunt, Jr. Library
Opened January 2013
Hunt Library
Hunt Library
Hunt Library
Hunt Library
student engagement
historical documentation
My #HuntLibary/lentil
go.ncsu.edu/myhunt
Fostering lasting engagement
How do users relate to us?
(de)centralization (relation)
consumption/creation (direction) physical/virtual (setting)
individual/community (identity) present/future (horizon)
(de)centralization (relation)
hashtagging
harvesting
moderating
social network
authors
#huntlibrary authors
aggregating peers
lentil users
services, archives
indirect participation
the life of a lentil image
1. metadata of user-tagged Instagram image is harvested via 2. image is approved by moderatorAPI
3. image battles, collects "likes" (subjective metadata) 4. (loop) calculate popularity score
5. (loop) check for removal from Instagram
6. image file is harvested and stored in staging area
7. donor agreement is automatically submitted as a comment 8. barring author objection, image metadata and file are
packaged for external system
consumption/creation
(direction)
the libraries provide most of the infrastructure
the users provide most of the content
bidirectional relationships
see: David Silver
physical/virtual (setting)
responsive
RESPONSIVE
individual/community (identity)
infinite tiles
battle
social
present/future (horizon)
How would you feel about your photos being added to an
archival collection?
"I would be so excited. For me, I think it would be better than
winning an iPad."
Forbes, re: Smithsonian and NARA
"So do people want to spend their free time adding to the historical record? Unequivocally yes, said both institutions in
recent conversations with me."
Raab, N. (2013, September 20). Crowdsourcing technology offers organizations new ways to engage public in history. Forbes. Retrieved from
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanraab/2013/09/20/technology-offers-organizations-new-ways- to-engage-the-public-in-history/
social media archives
collection vs. item value
social media engagement as a collecting
opportunity
open collections as an engagement
opportunity
usage in 8.5 months
2800+ images 7560+ "likes"
70,000+ "battles"
34,000+ visits
221,000+ pageviews
1000+ donor agreements 1 objection
github.com/NCSU-Libraries/lentil
credits
Jason Casden Bret Davidson Brian Dietz
Jennifer Garrett Cory Lown
Mike Nutt
Jason Ronallo
...and many others
Thanks!
@cazzerson | [email protected] | http://go.ncsu.edu/myhunt
